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J. NEIVIETH.

DOLL.

APPLICATION man DECJT, 1913.

1,327, 1 68, Patented Jan. 6. 1920 JOSEPH NE METH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DOLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Application filed December 17, 1918. Serial No. 267,129.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn NI JMETH, a citizen of Hungary, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dolls,

of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to doll heads, and more particularly to a mechanism for effecting theclosing and opening of the eyes, asembodied in what are termed sleeping dolls, now in common use.

In producing-these devices, the doll head is first decorated or painted, and the eye mechanism, as a whole, then inserted into the same and fastened thereto by means of a suitable adhesive. Part of the decorating operation is performed usually by dipping the doll-head into a suitable paint, which would be deposited on the eyes, if the same were previously mounted in the doll-head. In practice, it has also been found that the eye mechanism is apt to become loose or detach itself in time entirely from the dollhead, as the adhesive material does not always form a proper union between the eye mechanism and the doll-head.

The mainobject of the present invention is to overcome these defects, by so constructing the eye mechanism that the eye-ball supporting bracket isadapted to be securely fixed to the head by suitable fastening means, such as screws, and the said bracket is constructed in such a manner that the eye-ball carrying bridgepiece or spindle is adapted to be mounted on the said bracket after the decorating operation.

Another object of the invention is to provide eyes, which are adapted to be adjusted upon the bridge piece connecting the same.

A further object of,.the invention is to produce a device .of the character described, which is simple in construction, eflicient in operation, and which can be manufactured on a commercial scale, or, in other words, one which is not so difiicult to produce as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such an article.

With 1 these and other objects in view which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the ntention is illustrated in the accompanylng drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central section taken through a portion of a doll-head, showing the device as applied; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the eye mechanism; Fig. 3v is a perspective view of the supporting bracket of the eye mechanism; Fig. 4 is a section taken on line 4t of Fig. 2, the bracket bemg omitted to more clearly show the construction; and Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 55 of Fig. 4:, on a larger scale, the bracket being also omitted.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates the front section of the head of a doll, provided with the eye mechanism. The head has eye openingsll, and may be made of any suitable material, such as for instance b1sque,wax or papier-mach. The eyes 12 comprise each a substantially hemi-spherical shell 13, made, for instance, of metal and provided with a horizontally extend ing slot 14,- that extends from the rear face of the shell to a plane beyond the center thereof. Each. of these shells is drawn over a spherical body 15, made for instance of cork. These bodies fit snugly the shells, the latter being shiftable on purpose hereinafter to be described. The eyes are connected by a horizontally extending bridge piece 16, made preferably of wire, the ends of which extend through the slots 14 into the spherical bodies 15. To prevent a shifting of the spherical bodies 15 on the bridge piece 16, a substantially U-shaped wire clamp 17 is provided, the base 18 of which extends parallel to the bridge piece 16, while its legs 19 are passed into the spherical bod es 15, as clearly shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings.

To the bridge piece is attached centrally a downwardly extending arm 20, carrying a. Wei ht 21 at its lower end. The upper end of t e arm 20 is bent upwardly and rearwardly, as shown at 22, to limit, in cooperation with a stop 23, the tilting movement of the eyes. The stop 23 is disposed above the eye openings and secured in any suitable manner to the inner face of the doll-head.

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The bridge piece 16 is rotatably mounted I ll, where it is provided with a central substantially vertically extending slot 27, thereby forming a fork-shaped structure, each prong 28 of which is bent forwardly and thence back upon itself rearwardly, so as to cbnstitute bearing members for the bridge piece 16. [Both rearwardly extending prong ,portions29 are at their rear endsbent somewhat ",downward, as shown at 30, and

', thence upward as appears at 31. The di 1 ameter of the bridge piece 16'is suchthat, in

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. yping back as soon as the bridge piece has inserting it into the bearing members of the bracket 24, the rearwardly bent prong portions 29 must first be forced upward, snap- ";izpassed the portions 30 of the same, whereby {the ridge piece is kept in proper position by the stop 23 above referred to, upon which upon thebracketQl. The slot 27 in the bracket-24c permits of a relative motion between the latter and they arm 20.

-'Upon the outer face of the weight 21 is mounted .a cork abutment 32, that is adaptedto come into contact with the lower portion of the bracket 24:, to limit the movement of the eyes in one direction. ln'the other di-' rection the movement of the eyes is limited is mounted a cork piece 33, that comes into contact with the extension 22 of the arm 20. v The eye mechanism is assembled in, the f following manner: The bracket Zlis secured by the screws 25 to the section" 10 .of the 'he'adbfefore, the'two sections, constituting M) the'same,1are' united. After the limiting ope eration, the head is decorated as above'specified. The eyesl2'are mountediupon the bridge piece 16 and adjusted to thedistance between the eye openings 11 before: the

.Usshaped wire clamp 17 is passed into the spherical bodies 15. 'The bridge-piece with theelements thereon is then inserted into' the head-end engaged .with the bearing .members'of the bracket. The bridge piece at and the eyes are thus'rotatably mounted mies its upright position, the pupils painted or otherwise represented. upon the eye-balls upon the bracket so that, when the doll is in register with the eye openings. When the doll is laid down, theweight .21, acting in conjuction with'the arm 20 as a pendulum, causes the bridge piece 16 and the eyes a tached thereto to swing around, or in other doll-head, it is equally adapted for use in connection with toy puppets, representing animals, etc. a

lit is also to be observed that instead of the cork bodies 15, spheres of such other suitable materials may be employed, which permit-of aconvenient insertion of the bridge piece and the Ushaped clamp 17. Whatlclaim is Q 1.. An eye mechanism for doll-heads includin two eye members, each of which comprises a substantially hemi-spherical shell constituting the exterior of the eye, and a spherical body over which said shell is drawn, a bridge piece connectingsaid eyes consisting. of a spindle having its ends extending through said shells into the bodies therein, and a clamping piece connecting said spherical bodies.

'2; An eye mechanism for doll-headsineluding two eye members, each of whic com rises a substantially hemi-spherical she constituting the exterior of the eye, and

When the doll I a spherical'body over which said shellis drawn, a bridge piececonnecting'said'eyes therein, and a U-shapedclamping piece connecting said spherical bodies. v Q

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 22ndday of November,

JOSEPH NEMETH.

consisting of a spindle having its'ends xtending throughsaid shells into the bodies, 

